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Sunday, March 10, 2019

AIDS and the pharmaceutical industry

The virus is present in blood and all torso fluids and is known to be spread through exchange of fluids from an infected individual to another person through sexual intercourse sharing of needles or even through embryonic fluid from a mother to an unhatched foetus.It mostly attacks the immune system reducing the CD4 cells that are vital in the safe guarding the normal physiological function of the dead body making the body more pr ane to attack by other diseases for example tuberculosis. aid has unnatural a massive number of mickle in the tertiary world countries especially in Africa where presence of sophiscated laboratories for research was a unsullied dream.In the late 1980s ARVS were introduced and were thought to cure assist but they were also expensive to be afforded by many people especially in the developing nations where poverty levels are very highschool. AIDS spread at a very steadfast rate and there was need to bridle this rate of new infections.The need to p roduce drugs effective against AIDS be almost impossible because the virus according to scientist is said to shift from one place to another along chromosome and therefore difficult to target them.Due to the change magnitude prevalence of AIDS there was a call for the pharmaceutical industries to suffice fast and promptly to this life threatening disease. The development of new drugs involves a litter of processes and technology making them relatively expensive to for instance those people struggling to make a living in developing nations.The high cost of branded drugs has led to development of generic drugs which are less(prenominal) costly and dedicate the same constituents. Despite the high numbers of infections in developing nations, research and manu positionure of new drugs whether branded or generic is in the industrialized nations mostly.For sure the pandemic has led to a lot of suffering especially to those who are diagnosed with AIDS due to stigmatization. The impact of AIDS to economies of developing nations is extensive leading to decrease in labor power. This is because of the fact that most individuals affected are young people leaving the cash in ones chips load to the elderly persons.ConclusionAIDS has infected only a small equalizer of the world population but in many ways has affected each and every individual. It is therefore the responsibility of every body to assist bring the suffering of the people and economies to a halt.The pharmaceutical companies also have a responsibility in ensuring that drugs developed for prolonging lives of the infected people distributed fast and promptly to them. With the help of scientists and researchers the pharmaceutical industries are also faced with the quarrel of developing new drugs capable of curing the disease.

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